Date and Location
Wednesday 07 February 2024 via Zoom Virtual Meeting
In attendance:
Committee
Professor Sue Ziebland (Chair)
Mrs Anne Benson
Professor Chris Bonell
Professor Simon Coulton
Professor Eileen Kaner
Professor Susanne MacGregor
Miss Stella O'Brien
Dr Mabel Okoeki
Professor Tessa Parkes
Dr Jeremy Segrott
Dr Jenny Scott
Dr Tara Shivaji
Professor Obioha Chukwunyere Ukoumunne
Professor Anne Whittaker
RDIS Secretariat
Mr Ben Morgan (NIHR Deputy Director of Research Programmes)
Dr Raffaella Roncone (NIHR Assistant Director and Head of Innovation and Enterprises)
Dr Ian Newington (NIHR Assistant Director, Innovations)
Dr Stuart Haylock (NIHR Senior Research Manager)
Ms Amy Muggeridge (NIHR Senior Research Manager)
Ms Cordelia Davey Wright (NIHR Operations Manager)
Ms Elena Sundle (NIHR Research Officer)
Ms Holly Holman (NIHR Research Officer)
Miss Sarah Betts (NIHR Programme Manager - PPIE and Engagement)
Observers
Miss Isabelle Hammond-Caines
Ms Philippa Hook
Stage 2 applications considered
NIHR206755: A REAList evaluation of a school-based, multi-component Drug Education Programme (REAL-DEP)
Outcome: Recommended for funding
NIHR206760: The Illicit Project UK: Adaption and implementation of an evidence based schools prevention programme for older adolescents.
Outcome: Recommended for funding
NIHR206763: Achieving a generational shift in the demand for recreational drug use in Swindon's young persons population.
Outcome: Reject
NIHR206766: Stressed Out Brain: An evaluation of an early intervention, trauma-informed approach to reducing young people’s cannabis use.
Outcome: Reject
NIHR206768: Investigating the role of Theatre-in-Education in preventing illicit substance use.
Outcome: Recommended for funding
NIHR206769: Reducing the use of cocaine and its subsequent impact on domestic abuse.
Outcome: Reject
NIHR206772: Reducing demand for illicit substances in young people through co-production, skills training and early intervention.
Outcome: Recommended for funding
NIHR206773: Can a Social Marketing Campaign combined with personal and social upskilling training shift attitudes towards drugs? A pilot study in BCP and Dorset Council areas.
Outcome: Reject